Device for aiding osteopathic manipulators



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Lange, Bedding,

Application May 25, 1939, Serial No. 275,661

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a device for aiding osteopathic manipulation and has for an object to provide an improved construction wherein means are presented to lift and exercise different parts of the body by movement in various directions.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which may be used in connection with an osteopathic table or stool and caused to provide body of a patient and move the same vertically,

horizontally, or at a desired angle.

A still further object more specifically is the provision of a manipulator having a pair of power-driven reciprocating bars and a frame connected with the bars and so arranged that it may be moved at an angle vertically or horizontally according to the treatment desired.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an edge view of a device embodyingthe invention, the same being shown in association with an osteopathic table;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the structure shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the manipulator shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view through Fig. 3 approximately on the line 4-4;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through an osteopathic table and showing in elevation a modified form of the invention to that illustrated in Fig. 1, the section being taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. 6;

Fig. 6 is a plan View of the structure shown in Fig. 5, part of the table being broken away.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals, I indicates a standard osteopathictable which may be used with the manipulator 2. If desired, the machine 2 could be used with a stool or other support without departing from the spirit of the invention. In a device constructed in accordance with the present invention means have been provided whereby the parts of the body may be moved back and forth in various directions to secure a desired exercise or manipulation for certain results according to instructions of the doctor.

As shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the structure has been positioned to provide an up-and-down movement. The manipulator 2 may rest directly on the floor or may have suitable castors 3 for supporting the same whereby it may be easily moved along the table I so as to be inposition to exercise any part of the body as desired. The device 2 is provided with a rectangular frame 4 having fittings 5 secured to the top thereof in 1 any suitable way, as for instance by a clamping 5 bolt 6. The fittings 5 carry, respectively, arms I and 8 which may have enlargements 9 thereon so that one or more straps III may be positioned along these arms. It will be understood'that a strap I0 is adapted to be placed under the body, 10 or under an arm or a leg for raising and allowing the same to drop down by gravity. If desired, suitable straps or tying means could be arranged with the strap In for connecting the strap II] with the part of the body to be manipulated. 15

When the device is in operation the frame 4 moved upwardly or downwardly at a desired rate, as for instance, approximately twelve times per minute. This rate, of course, may be changed as desired by varying the action of the prime mover The prime mover II is preferably an electric motor and actuates a pulley l2 on which a belt I3 is mounted. The belt I3, in turn, actuates a pulley I4 secured to a shaft l5 connected with a series of reducing gears l6, said gears in turn being connected with a shaft II to which disks I8 and I9 are rigidly secured. By this system of reduction, the respective disks I8 and I9 rotate much slower than the motor whereby even though the motor may rotate twelve hundred revolutions per minute, the disks I8 and I9 will rotate at a speed to movethe frame 4 upwardly and downwardly at approximately twelve times per minute. Each of the disks l8 and I9 is provided with a number of apertures 20, there being one near the periphery, one near the center, and one at an intermediate point. Each of these disks carries a wrist pin 2|, which is connected with a connecting rod 22 and the connecting rod in turn is connected with a slide 23. As shown in Fig. 3, there are two slides 23, two connecting rods 22 and two wrist pins 2|. The respective slides 23 are each provided with a bent-over end 24 bolted or riveted to the lower end of the frame 4.

When the wrist pin 2| is arranged as shown in Fig. 4 the slides 23 and frame 4 will be given their greatest movement. If the wrist pin 2| were shifted to the intermediate aperture 20 the reciprocation would be less and if it were shifted 50 to the aperture nearest the center of the disk the distance of the reciprocation would be the least though the speed would be the same. i

In actual use, after the patient has been placed on the table I, straps III, or other straps, are 55 and also to therespective ends of the bars 38 connected to the respective bell crank levers connected with the desired parts of the body to be manipulated. When this has been done power is turned on to the motor H and the frame 4 will then begin to move upwardly and downwardly. It will be understood that if considerable movement is desired wrist pin 2| will be arranged as shown in Fig. 4, but if only a slight movement is desired the wrist pin will be shifted to the aperture 20 nearest the centerof the disk. From Figs. 3 and 4 it will also be seen that the slides 23 are mounted in suitable slideways 25 and 26 formed in standards 21 and 28, which standards are bolted or otherwise rigidly secured to the base plate 29. The castors 3 are preferably connected withthe base .plate 29 though, if desired, the castors could be eliminated.

Some times it might be desirable to secure back and forth movement at an angle to the verticaland when this is the case the base plate 29 is tilted to the desired angle and, consequently, the frame 4 willmove back and forth at the same angle.

In case a horizontal movement is desired the modified structure shown in, Figs. 5 and 6 is used. In this form of the invention the same reference numerals are used except for the modified parts. As shown particularlyin Fig. 5, the respective connecting rods"'22 are connected to bell crank levers 3!) pivotally mounted at 3| on the respective standards 21 and 28. Links 32 and 33 are and also pivotally connected to the respective swinging depending arms 34 and 35. Suitable journal pins 36 and 3'! are used for pivotally connecting the links 32 and 33 to arms 34 and and 39 forming part of a frame 4'. Bars 38 and 39 are also pivotally connected at 40 and H to the respective depending links 42 and 43. The frame 4' at the end projecting beyond the table I is bent upwardly and is provided with a cross bar 44 to which straps, similar to strap I 0, or other fastening means may be connected. When the motor I I is functioning, the bar 44 will move back and forth in a horizontal direction.

If desired, the modified structure shown in Fig. 5 and the structure shown in Fig. 1 could be used at the same time on the same patient.

I claim:

A device of the character described adapted to be used with a table including a base, a pair of standards carried by said base, said standards being provided with guideways, a sliding bar for each standard arranged in the respective guideways, a connecting rod for each bar, a disk for each of said connecting rods, each of said disks having apertures at different distances from the center, a wrist pin for eachof said connecting rods adapted to be positioned in any desired order in the respective apertures of the disk so as to vary the throw of the connecting rods as the disks rotate, means for pivotally connecting one 'end of the respective Wrist pins to the respective bars, means for rotating the disksat the same speed,

and a comparatively rigid rectangular lifting 

